The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments on Thursday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus.
____________ ZOOM: At the end of last year, the video-conferencing company Zoom had about 10 million daily users. By March, it was 200 million.
CEO Eric Yuan is addressing some of the security concerns that have arisen as tens of millions of workers fled the office and logged in to Zoom. "For the past several weeks, supporting this influx of users has been a tremendous undertaking and our sole focus," Yuan wrote in a blog post. “However, we recognize that we have fallen short of the community's -- and our own -- privacy and